HIGHLIGHTS

The businessman - Manish Agarwal - claims the bungalow belongs to his family

Nagar Nigam documents have been fudged to wrongly enter Congress as a co-owner: Agarwal

We have the original auction deed: Agarwal

The bungalow

HIGHLIGHTS

The businessman - Manish Agarwal - claims the bungalow belongs to his family

Nagar Nigam documents have been fudged to wrongly enter Congress as a co-owner: Agarwal

We have the original auction deed: Agarwal

It is quite evident that things are not going well for the Congress for the past few years and now what could possibly further add to its woes in UP is that there looms a danger of vacating the party headquarters in Lucknow.

If the claims of a local businessman - Manish Agarwal - are to be believed, his family is the rightful owner of the bunglow and the Nagar Nigam documents have been fudged to wrongly enter Congress as a co-owner.

"My grand father late Ram Swaroop Agarwal bought the property on April 24, 1961 in an auction, held by the ministry of rehabilitation. We have the original auction deed that clearly mentions that my grand father made the highest bid of Rs 1.75 lakh", Manish claimed.

SHOCKING DISCOVERY

"Chandrabhanu Gupta was the then chief minister and a room was given to the Congress(I) for office purpose. Till 1976, the documents of the Nigam mentioned the name of my grandfather and his cousin Purushottam Agarwal's wife Padmawati Agarwal," he added.

However, a few days ago when Manish filed papers for a fresh mutation in the name of Kapil, Manish, Praveen, Shashi and Abhishek (all from Agarwal family), he was shocked to see the name of new owners in the 1986 mutation papers.

"Along with my grandfather's and Padmawati Agarwal's name the names mentioning c/o Congress(I), c/o Mohsina Kidwai (the then state president) and c/o Jawaharlal Nehru trust were included", he said.

"We are investigating as to how these inclusions were done and changes were made in 1986. We have also questioned the Congress state president and a notice has also been issued asking the Congress to present all property related papers," Uday Raj Singh, comissioner of Lucknow said.